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milk not a different bottle, but the same bottle of milk twelve 

 or sixteen or twenty hours earlier, in daylight. Why is it? It is 

 because these miserable little series of connected closets that they 

 call apartments are not big enough to hold a quart of milk longer 

 than is absolutely necessary. Now, that would pay the people 

 well. They would get more out of it than it costs them if they 

 would provide refrigerators, and provide two cents more worth of 

 ice, if necessary, and facilities to hold that milk over night, or, at 

 least arrange to receive it when it is fresh. 



Now, we have heard a most excellent series of statements from 

 various speakers, and I was especially interested in those which 

 were numbered and given by Mr. Stadtmueller. Just think of a 

 man like that being the health officer of a small town! I wonder 

 how it happened. If Mr. Stadtmueller ever gets tired of living 

 in Connecticut, I hope he will migrate to New York. 



I was delighted with these common sense papers. What Mr. 

 Stadtmueller gave us was almost the ideal, and that is what we 

 should always keep in mdnd and always strive for. We will never 

 accomplish much unless we have an ideal, and that is what he gave 

 to us. But I want to say that I can give you an additional point 

 which possibly may appeal to you as being of a little more im- 

 mediate practicability, although I would not discount one fraction 

 of one per cent the good things that Mr. Stadtmueller has said. 

 Now, here is a question. We are here to consider how we can get 

 purer milk for this City. Yonder in New York are thousands of 

 "dairies producing milk, and there is an enormous stream of milk 

 flowing down into this city every day. Up at its thousands of 

 sources, much of the milk comes out pure, high grade, clean and 

 desirable, and some of it comes out impure from its very source, low 

 grade and undesirable. Those streams of milk come down to the 

 city, and the nearer they get to this city, the more they intermingle. 

 When they get down here, so far as the consumer is concerned, they 

 are pretty much all alike. Now, you live in New York City, and 

 you want clean milk and you do, and you do, and you do and I as- 

 sume that you are willing to pay a fair price for it, though I don't 

 believe you want to pay any more than you have to. We will say 

 that Mr. Francisco lives in the country and that he is one of those 

 who is producing pure milk. Now, what is the use of talking so 

 much? You want pure milk, and you want it, and you (indicat- 

 ing Mr. Francisco) have got it. Why don't you fix it so that you 

 can get his milk, or that you can get pure milk? Now, that is not 

 theorizing a bit. We ought to have it provided that any person who 

 wishes to sell milk, and who describes that milk to his consumers 

 as being pure the product of tuberculin tested cows, cooled to 



